Aversive racism is simultaneously holding egalitarian values and negative feelings toward minorities.
Categorisation is the natural tendency of humans to sort objects into groups.
Confirmation bias is the tendency to focus more on evidence that supports one’s expectations than on evidence that contradicts them.
Contact hypothesis is regular interaction between members of different groups reduces prejudice, providing that is occurs under favourable conditions.
Discontinuity effect occurs when groups are more extreme, and often more hostile, than individuals.
Discrimination is unequal treatment of different people based on the groups or categories to which they belong.
Ingroup favouritism is preferential treatment of, or more favorable attitudes toward, people in one’s own group.
Ingroup members are people who belong to the same group or category as we do.
Minimal group effect occurs when people show favoritism toward ingroup members even when group membership is arbitrary or randomly determined.
Outgroup homogeneity bias is the assumption that outgroup members are more similar to one another than ingroup members are to one another.
Outgroup members are people who belong to a different group or category than we do.
Prejudice is a negative feeling toward an individual based solely on his or her membership in a particular group.
Racism is prejudiced attitudes toward a particular race.
Realistic conflict theory occurs when competition over scarce resources leads to intergroup hostility and conflict.
Salience is being obvious or standing out.
Scapegoat theory is blaming problems and misfortunes on outgroups contributes to negative attitudes toward these groups.
Self-defeating prophecy is a prediction that ensures, by the behaviour it generates, that it will not come true.
Self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that ensures, by the behaviour it generates, that it will come true.
Self-serving bias is the tendency for people to take credit for success but refuse to blame for problems and failures.
Social categorisation is the process of sorting people into groups on the basis of characteristics they have in common.
Stereotype threat is the fear that one might confirm the stereotypes that others hold.
Stereotypes are beliefs that associate groups of people with certain traits.
Stigma by association is the rejection of those who associate with stigmatised others.
Stigmas are characteristics of individuals that are considered socially unacceptable (e.g. being overweight, mentally ill, sick, poor, or physically scarred).
Subtypes are categories that people use for individuals who do not fit a general stereotype.
Superordinate goals are goals that can be achieved only by cooperating and working with others.
